What: Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the LusitaniaWho: Erik LarsonWhen: March 10Why: From the author of Devil in the White City and In the Garden of Beasts, the story of the Lusitania's sinking. As you expect from Larson, a thoroughly researched and gripping account.

What: A Little LifeWho: Hanya YanagiharaWhen: March 10Why: A long, often painful, rewarding saga about four young men who move to New York fresh out of college, who find the past is prologue, but not always in easily understood ways.

What: The Sellout:Who: Paul BeattyWhen: March 3Why: A major comic novel that deals with race in America, a town that disappears, the reappearance of slavery and the Supreme Court.

What: Becoming Madison: The Extraordinary Origins of the Least Likely Founding FatherWho: Michael SignerWhen: March 10Why: Alexander Hamilton will be getting the love from Broadway when Hamilton transfers there this summer from the Public. Madison fans know that their guy is the undersung Founding Father, as this biography amply demonstrates.

What: Kill Chain: The Rise of the High-Tech AssassinsWho: Andrew CockburnWhen: March 10Why: The march of the drones has become, in relatively short order, business as usual—if by business, we mean routine, remote-controlled killing. The author makes clear that drones aren't going away, so we might at least understand how we got here.

What: Frank: A Life in Politics from the Great Society to Same-Sex MarriageWho: Barney FrankWhen: March 17Why: We're total Frankophiles so we're looking forward to hearing his thoughts on the decades he spent representing Massachusetts in the House and, even more, hearing that smart and funny voice in the telling.

What: A Reunion of GhostsWho: Judith Claire MitchellWhen: March 24Why: A dark, comic novel, partly inspired by poison gas inventor Fritz Haber. Mitchell's story is of three sisters on the Upper West Side, and the familial and personal consequences of their Haber-like great-grandfather.

Answers to Friday's Quiz are here. And one correction: we said that the first Crazy Eddies was at Coney Island, which is wrong. It was originally on Kings Highway in Midwood.